A few weeks ago Jeremy at The Chemistry Blog wrote a post called "Common Student Difficulties in Organic Chemistry". Since I was flying home for vacation at the time, I missed out the discussion, but buried in the comment section was a reference to a recent article by Joseph J. Mullins of Le Moyne … [Read more...]

Previously, I've been talking about how Coulomb's law - the attraction and repulsion between charges - affects the properties of atoms, and is responsible for the phenomenon of chemical bonding. Let's review.
Atoms share electron pairs between them. These relationships are called chemical … [Read more...]